Deborah Okyere

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Researcher

University of Arkansas

Faculty Researcher

5 h-index 11 pubs 200 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Deborah Okyere's research investigates the properties of materials and their interactions with biological systems, with a focus on nanoparticles, surfaces, and bacterial behavior. Her work includes studying the tribological performance of thin coatings and cartilage-inspired textures for orthopedic implants. She has also examined the stability and optical properties of copper nanoparticles and engineered silver nanoparticle surfaces for antimicrobial applications. Okyere's research extends to understanding bacterial mobility and motility in porous media, including flagellar dynamics of *E. coli* in hydrogels. She has published on the synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles for undergraduate physical chemistry experiments. Okyere collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Ariel Rogers, Min Zou, Firuze Soltani-Kordshuli, and Diksha Shrestha, with shared publications across these collaborations.

Metrics

h-index: 5
Publications: 11
Citations: 200

Selected Publications

Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Nanoparticles: A Laboratory Experiment for Undergraduate Physical Chemistry (2025)

Journal of Chemical Education DOI OpenAlex
Flagellar dynamics and entanglement of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">E</mml:mi> <mml:mo>.</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mspace width="0.16em"/> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:mi>o</mml:mi> <mml:mi>l</mml:mi> <mml:mi>i</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> bacteria in polymeric hydrogel (2025)

Physical review. E DOI OpenAlex
Durable Low-Friction Graphite Coatings Enabled by a Polydopamine Adhesive Underlayer (2025)

Lubricants 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Understanding the Mechanism of Bent DNA Amplifying Sensors Using All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations (2025)

Biosensors DOI OpenAlex
The Shape Modulation of Laser-Induced Nanowelded Microstructures Using Two Colors (2023)

Colloids and Interfaces DOI OpenAlex
Bacterial mobility and motility in porous media mimicked by microspheres (2023)

Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
Engineering silver nanoparticle surfaces for antimicrobial applications (2022)

Elsevier eBooks 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Cartilage-inspired surface textures for improved tribological performance of orthopedic implants (2022)

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Stability of Polyethylene Glycol-Coated Copper Nanoparticles and Their Optical Properties (2022)

Coatings 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
Tribological behavior of the PDA/PTFE + Cu-SiO2 nanoparticle thin coatings (2021)

Surface and Coatings Technology 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
Polydopamine Surface Coating Synergizes the Antimicrobial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles (2020)

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 144 citations DOI OpenAlex